» Hitting the road? Here are three recommendations about trips that get out of hand.

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If you’ve talked to me in the last couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt heard me gush about Satyajit Ray’s exquisite Days and Nights in the Forest, a funny and touching Bengali language Indian film that I’ve now seen twice at Film Forum. The film’s been restored beautifully—see it in theaters if you can, though […]


Musk’s xAI faces tougher road expanding Memphis area after EPA update

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Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency closed a loophole this week that Elon Musk’s xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its first data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created a kind of off-grid power plant for its Colossus facility by […]


Europe at ‘fork in the road’ between AI competition and climate

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Europe stands at a crossroads: compete meaningfully in the AI race or stick to its world-leading climate goals.  “It’s like a fork in the road moment for Europe,” Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives told CNBC. The bloc can either “play in the future” or risk “missing a big part of this technology wave.” The dilemma is compounded […]


How Trump Decided to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht

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In December 2023, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump wanted to know how to win over libertarian voters, a constituency he thought could help him reclaim the presidency, Ms. McArdle said in an interview. She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a […]


Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

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President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. In doing so, Mr. Trump fulfilled a promise that he made repeatedly on the campaign trail as he courted political contributions from the crypto industry, which spent […]